The Simpsons The Springfield Files Quotes & Sayings

Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. — John Desmond Bernal

In 77 BC, Cicero used the evidence of a client's well-kept ledger to argue in court for his good character and trustworthiness, saying, 'day-books last for a month, ledgers for ever . . . day-books embrace the memory of a moment, ledgers attest the good faith and conscientiousness which ensure a man's reputation for all time'. — Jane Gleeson-White

small talk comes from small bones — Ezra Pound

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. — C. G. Jung